Longitude

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

in astronomy, the disof Bull Run. In 1862 he was made tance in degrees reckoned along the eclip- Major-General, and earned great celebtic from the spring equinox to a circle at rity under General Lee, in the campaigns right angles to it passing through the against Generals Pope, McClellan, and heavenly body whose longitude is re- Burnside. After the battle of Frederquired. A star situated directly in the icksburg, General Longstreet was given line between the pole of the ecliptic and the command of a corps, with the rank the vernal equinox has no longitude. In of Lieutenant-General. With this force place of celestial longitudes right ascenhe took an active and distinguished part sions are now generally noted. In geogin the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysraphy, distance east or west on the surburg, and Chickamauga. In the battle face of the globe. The longitude of a of the Wilderness, General Longstreet place is the arc of the equator intercepted was dangerously wounded. After the between the meridian of the place and a fall of Richmond he surrendered, and meridian passing through some other lived in comparative retirement till 1869, place from which longitude is reckoned. when he was appointed Supervisor of Customs at New Orleans. Later he was made Minister to Turkey, and United States Marshal for the District of ditenco haowban GEN. JAMES LONGSTREET Georgia. In 1897 he was appointed United States Commissioner of Railroads. He published "From Manassas to Appomattox" (1904). He died near Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 2, 1904.